Notices

Originally Posted by skykooler

I have a weird problem. When approaching one exit, this is what Google says: "Take exit 340A on the left toward Lincoin Dr/Kelly Dr".
Modrana always says "Take exit three hundred and forty A on the left toward Lincoin Doctor slash Kelly Drive."
Apart from the misspelling of "Lincoln" (Google's fault), why does it say Doctor the first time and Drive the second?

Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur

My guess is that since the parser has no "human" way of understanding language, and it's meant to speak for more general/broad uses than JUST routing, "Dr" can be either Doctor or Drive - by extension, it uses heuristics to guess when it means what - in this case, it sees "Dr" at the very end of the string of text, and presumably assumes that that can't be Doctor because English never uses "doctor" like that, at the end of a sentence as an abbreviation.

However, the "/" doesn't make sense to it as the termination point in a clause, nor does it parse that "[something] Dr/[something else] Dr" means is two swap-able sub-clauses, both of which are thus to be seen as to be read as if they were at the end of the sentence.

Since this is the first time in a long while that I've looked at this thread, I have no idea what modRana uses as a text-to-speech backend.

Of course, you can't even take out "Doctor" as a reading of "Dr" even in Nav software, because you can't assume you won't run into a road called "Dr Stevenson Dr" or something.

Originally Posted by petur

this weekend brought up two bugs related to GUI rotation:

1) when you have modRana configured to auto-rotate, and you start it while holding it in portrait, it will not rotate and stay landscape. After rotating the phone to landscape and back, it follows.

2) when configuring the GUI to force a certain rotation, it will only use that when you restart it.

The above two made me stop on my bike to get the rotation right (had to take it out of the holder to get the orientation right)

Originally Posted by petur

I also discovered that while in bike mode, it will not route nor find/accept any address given to it. It seems that for bike routing it gets that info elsewhere, and this is not working. Good thing the route is maintained when switching between modes - this was my workaround

Originally Posted by skykooler

One other suggestion: When two turns are close together, concatenate the directions, for example to make it say "Turn left on Elm Street, then turn right on Main Street", or even "Turn left on Elm Street, then turn right". This would help immensely in the city, where the notification distance for one direction is often passed while another is being spoken.

Originally Posted by jose6a

hello, can some guru help me ? I had installed modrana with the aptget method but here is the problem :


[...]

process 7592: arguments to dbus_connection_get_data() were incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file dbus-connection.c line 5757.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
process 7592: arguments to dbus_connection_set_data() were incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file dbus-connection.c line 5721.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
Aborted

Originally Posted by handaxe

to uninstall and remove all settings etc as root:

Code:

apt-get purge modrana

Those errors should not be fatal, at least they are not when I get them on a desktop system

Originally Posted by MartinK

BTW, it would be possible to add support for overlaying more than two map layers. But I just can't come with any use-case for this.

Originally Posted by skykooler

If the Google Traffic tiles were available, you might want them over a map overlay over a sat image.

Originally Posted by jj0

Though they sound better, I'd advise against mbrola, as it's not free, it's closed source, not worth it in my mind...

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Originally Posted by MartinK

And on a related note - after fighting with dpkg for two days, PyClutter 1.0 is now packaged and available from Extras-devel. This was a pre-requisite for using the GPU accelerated Clutter GUI library in modRana.

I have not started on on the clutter-accelerated map view yet, but this package means that when I have something releasable, users will have all the needed dependencies.

Technical note - What is Clutter ?
Clutter is GPU accelerated GUI library that enables fast animated manipulation with graphical elements.
Hildon uses a an old version of Clutter (0.8) for all its animations and transitions and Mappero uses clutter for its map view.

Originally Posted by skykooler

If the Google Traffic tiles were available, you might want them over a map overlay over a sat image.

Originally Posted by jj0

With this I have a question, that I hadn't had time to investigate further... How does modrana handle updating of already downloaded cached tiles?

Originally Posted by cheve

please checkout the license/terms, it does not look too bad http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/. It is deemed NOT Free with respect to Debian; but to me(ok I am NOT a lawyer) for all intend and purposes it is 'free' enough. It would be great if someone with enough tech knowledge to make it work with N900 -- I can't code to save my life

Originally Posted by Daneel

So, how would Modrana pefrom compared with CloudGPS once it starts using Clutter?

Thanks for the great work so far

Originally Posted by skykooler

Could the EV charging stations be added under POI? (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...348#post994348)

Originally Posted by MartinK

There are basically two things modRana should gain by using clutter - performance and smooth/seamless transitions. Layer blending, rotation and scaling, which are quite "expensive" with software rendering should be almost "free" with GPU acceleration. It will be also possible to properly animate certain operations that currently just switch from one state to another and might be confusing (zooming, rotation).

It should be also possible to do a fake3D view and kinetic scrolling, like in CloudGPS.

The actual performance remains to be seen, but initial testing looks promising.

BTW, I'm going to submit the Clutter interface & offline routing as existing application improvements to the Coding competition.

Another progress update...
I've got the text wrapping in the navigation info box working. Now I just have to solve some remaining minor issues and do some testing. Next release should be hopefully ) coming shortly.

Originally Posted by MartinK

Also, did anybody try the mbrola voices ? If so, how do they compare to the default ones in espeak ?

Originally Posted by MartinK

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Well if it could be packaged for Debian I don't see why it can't be also packaged for Maemo. But I don't really feel like packaging it myself - I have no idea how to properly do a binary package. Also, did anybody try the mbrola voices ? If so, how do they compare to the default ones in espeak ? BTW, if the mbrola voices do improve espeak output quality, packaging them might be of interest for all the other projects using it (Espeak caller, Espeak clock, Espeak GUI, etc.).

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